Social entrepreneurship as critical agency: A study of rural internet kiosks

2006 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Development, ICTD2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 143-152

  Rangaswamy, Nimmi ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Ethnography; ICT; Rural internet kiosks

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; TECHNOLOGY;

GROWING DEMAND; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ITC); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SMALL BUSINESSES; SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP;

INTERNET;

EID: 38149131559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2006.301851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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